j/k Even though for as long as I remember, which is probably last week, we butt heads, I respect JD's opinions, even when they're wrong.

Did I say that out loud?

I do like The Graphic Mac JD. I must say, what you cover is usually not mainstream copy/paste articles. I did not know Lynda.com was offering Mavericks by Chris Breen for free until Nov 17. Sweet. Thx.

• I've had to force quit System Prefs a couple of times and then it won't launch again• Similar thing with Safari• When trying to log out or shut down or restart, I get a blank screen and have to do a hard shutdown (this has happened a few times today)

I've repaired permissions (which seems to take forever), and with fsck -f there's a set of events that say something to the effect that the identifying Seagate (which I don't have) and Maxtor failed.

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